After I completed today’s work, I realized that the center pumpkins were all in a line, and I decided I didn’t like that. Bad composition. (See left image.) So I removed one of the pumpkins, and I think it looks a bit more natural.
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Pumpkin Harvest.. Work in Progress
It’s finally starting to feel like fall here after a long, hot summer. So, I’m in the mood for fall-themed paintings. This one is from a lesson for patrons of PaintCoach. The idea is to map out the large shapes first, and get the values set before filling in the detail.
I’m doing this on an 8×8 canvas, which I painted with Winsor & Newton Galeria in Pale Umber, drawing out the lines with an acrylic paint pen. (Some of the lines are “wrong”, but I’ll be painting over them anyway.)
Christmas Tree
I did these paintings based on a lesson from PaintCoach on Patreon. The first one I did, I barely looked at the photo, and instead was following along with the video. The scene ended up being excessively abstract (top right). The second effort is marginally better, but I’m still not satisfied.
Sunflower 10: Playing with Yellows
Some time back I had painted this 6×6 canvas panel with cerulean blue, so today I used that for my sunflower. The petals are layered with cadmium-free orange as the base (although it looks like yellow ochre now that it’s painted on the blue). Then I mixed azo yellow with some yellow ochre. Finally, the top layer is cadmium-free yellow. The center is burnt umber light, with some yellow ochre, and then purple and yellow denoting the seeds.
Sunflower #9 — from Life
I painted one of the sunflowers in my vase — but skipped the vase. And decided to outline it with one of my Arteza Brush Pens. This was done on 6×8 300-lb. watercolor paper.
Red Rose
The painting below — on 6×8 300-lb. watercolor paper — is based on a photo by Shannon Baldwin on Unsplash; my painted rose leans red as opposed to a peachy coral.
Human Figure – Value Study
As I mentioned in this post, I’m taking the online course by Peggi Kroll-Roberts, and the assignment is to do 2-value and then 3-value studies painting the figure. In this effort, I am using the figure I sketched out in charcoal here, as prep for a future painting.
I drew out the figure first, using a 6×8 piece of 300-lb watercolor paper. For comparison’s sake, I’ve included the charcoal figure.
Based on an image by sarahbernier3140 from Pixabay
Sunflower #8 – Chocolate Cherry
Yes, this IS a type of sunflower! Since it’s different, I decided to paint it on a 5×7 gessoboard.
Sunflower #6
I’ve been unsatisfied with my sunflower painting so the other day I googled “how to paint sunflowers in acrylics”. The search results were a bounty of different YouTube videos. Well, naturally, some sunflower paintings appealed to me more than others so I watched about half a dozen.
What I found was, naturally, everyone has their own way of painting sunflowers. Some start with the background, some start with the dark center of the flower. However, the colors they chose for painting the flower were largely in sync across the board — and with my own paintings: yellow, yellow ochre, burnt sienna, burnt umber, etc. etc.
One process I decided to try, though, was to do more layering of the petals, and start with a round of yellow ochre first, applying the brighter yellow afterwards. This painting on an 8×8 canvas was just from my imagination, and the mix of all the sunflower pictures I’ve been looking at lately.
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